Cuff link attachment



March 15, 1932. J KEENEY 1,849,762

CUFF LINK ATTACHMENT Filed May 20, 195a gwwntoc Jase v71 Keeney Patented Mar. 15, 1932 UNITED STATES.

PA NT OFFICE JOSEPH r. KEENEY, or nnmtrsnune, PENNSYLVANIA our]? Lmx VATTJZLGEMEQNTV Application filed May 20,1930. Seri'alNo. 454,032.

ment which interengaged with the connecting.

element of the other portion to hold the two portions together so that the two edges of the cuif are held in position about the wearers arm. Owing to the close proximity of the two portions, it sometimes occurs that a shirt, having a small cuff, is drawn undesirably close about the wearers arm, so that'a stretching movement of the arm causes disengagement of the connecting elements and hence a separation of the cuff edges. This condition is aggravated by the fact that the two portions are connected together with their axes coincident, so that the two cuff edges are drawn down substantially into parallel relationship.

The present invention proposes the employment of an attachment which can be inserted between the cuff link portions of any of a number of such separable cuff links having the same type of connecting elements, and serves to hold these portions spaced apart and at an angle to one another, so that a much greater freedom is afforded the wearers arm within the cufl'.

An illustrative form of constructing the device is set forth on the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the spacer attachment assembled with the two portions of a cufl' link.

Fig. 2 is a view showing the spacer attachment with the cuff link portions separated therefrom, the cuff being shown in dotted lines.

A separable cuff link now widely distributed through the markets comprises a pair of separable portions, each of which is provided with the shank 10 having flange 11 at one end and a medallion or so-called front at the other end. In use, the stem 10 is slipped through the buttonhole of a cufi" C, so that the flange 11 rests against one surface of the cuff and the front 12 against the other surface, thus holding the cuff in position upon the stem 10.. It will be understood that the fronts 12 are usually ornamented and are exposed while the cufi link is exposed at the I! outer surface of the cuff.

Oneof the flanges 11 of each cuff link is provided with an internal member 13, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, which comprisesin the commercial article a socket anda retain- 00 ing means; Since many types of such external members-have been proposed, it'hasbeen merely represented by way ofillustration in the. drawings. 7 M V a The other flange 11 is provided with aninternal member 14, illustrated in; Fig. 2. as being a ball adapted to enter the socket of the member 13 and be retained therein.

This construction has been set forth .conventionally as illustrating a cuff link of a type wellknown in the'art.

aA stem member 14-of arcuate-shape, being curved along its length, is provided at its ends with flanges 15 and 16 similar to the flanges: 11., On the end flange 15 is provided the in--. terna-l mem'berl? which. is adapted to enter and engage the external member 13 of. one cuif link portion. In the other flange 16, ordinarily extending back into the stem 14, is provided an external member comprising a socket 18 and a resilientholding device 19.. This holding device 19 is illustrated as comprising a loop of spring wire located within the SOCkGtlS and presenting portions opposite the reduced-mouth of the socket 18. The internal member 14 of the other cuff link portion .is adapted to. enter this reduced mouth, and by resiliently moving portions of the holding device 19, to enter the socket 18 of the external member, and be held therein.

It will thus be seen that the present attachment may be purchased as'a separate structure, in a color and finish selected to match with the metal of the cuff links already owned by the purchaser, for example, and may, in fact, be interchanged between different sets of such cufl links. For example, if the separable cufl' link portions are already in position on a shirt cuff, and it is desired to insert the present attachment, it is merely necessary to pull the separable cufi' link portions apart in the usual manner and then snap the attachment into position between them.

The flanges 15 and 16, being of the same size of flanges 11, assist in properly centering the pairs of interengaging internal and external connecting elements 13, 17 and 14, 18 with respect to one another.

The device is light, convenient, of little incumbrance and of attractive appearance.

It is obvious that it may be constructed in many ways without departing from the scope of the appended claims.

, Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A spacer attachment for separable cuff links which have interengaging internal and external connecting elements, comprising a rigid stem member having external and internalconnecting elements at its ends, whereby it is adapted to be inserted between the separable portions of the links and directly interengaged with the connecting elements thereof.

2. A spacer attachment for separable cuff links which have interengaging internal and external connecting elements, comprising a stern member having external and internal connecting elements at its ends and being curved along its length whereby it is adapted to be inserted between the separable portions of the lengths and directly interengaged with the connecting elements thereof, whereby to hold the said separable portions spaced apart and at an angle with respect to one another.

3. A spacer attachment for separable cuff links which each have a pair of separable portions each provided with a shank to pass through the cuff and a flange and a front to maintain the shank in the cufi, one of said portions having an internal member on its said flange adapted to enter and engage an external member in the flange of the other portion, comprising arigid stem provided "with flanges at its ends, one of said stem flanges having an external member adapted to receive the said internal member of one of said portions and the other said stem flange having an internal member adapted to enter the external member of the other said portion.

In testimony whereof, I afi ix my signature.

JOSEPH P. KEENEY. 

